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Byron Fraser
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Miller, civil servant.
Born at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on 18 September 1855, son of Scottish immigrants James Hugh Fraser and Ann Turnbull (?-1911), after attending the public and grammar school at New Glasgow, he attended the Wesleyan Academy at Sackville, New Brunswick, then took a commercial course at Halifax.
He worked in a furniture business at New Glasgow for two years and, in 1878, visited Manitoba, returning in the Fall of the same year. He returned to Manitoba the following spring and, for some time, he worked in the offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway and conducted a supply store at Rat Portage [now Kenora], Ontario. His father built and operated a roller mill at Nelson, then built a roller mill at Morden in 1885. In 1891, he rented the Morden mill from his father and subsequently rented a roller mill at Treherne, giving a total capacity in the two mills of 200 barrels daily. He supplied the local demand for flour and also shipped to eastern Canada.
Around 1899, he became employed at the Morden Land Titles Office, remaining there for 22 years until retirement in mid-1920 when he moved his family to Winnipeg.
On 13 July 1887, he married Florence McConnell (c1860-1897) of Pembroke, Ontario. They had six children: Doris Irving Fraser (1888-1968, wife of Dr. Matthew William Edward Grimshaw), James McConnell Fraser (1890-1918), Frank Rudolph Fraser (1891-1899), Cecile Drummond Fraser (1893-1954, wife of Imrie J. Borden), Drummond Byron Fraser (1895-1938), and Cora Fraser (1896-?). After his wife’s death, he married Mabel Mary Musgrove Dansford (?-?) on 26 October 1901. He was an active Mason, being a Past Master of the Morden Lodge. He was one of the founders of the Morden Masonic Hospital and was a prominent worker in the YMCA. In religion, he was a Presbyterian, and in politics, a Conservative.
He died at Winnipeg on 15 December 1922 and was buried at Morden.
Birth registrations [Cecil Drummond Fraser, Frank Rudolph Fraser], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
The Canadian Album, Men of Canada (1894).
Obituary [Frank Rudolph Fraser], Morden Chronicle, 11 May 1899, page 1.
1901 and 1906 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Byron Harry Fraser, Mabel Mary Musgrave Dansford], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Byron Fraser], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Deaths and funerals,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 December 1922, page 7.
Obituary [Drummond Byron Fraser], Morden Times, 11 May 1938, page 1.
Obituary [Cecil Drummond Fraser], The Record, 17 December 1945, page 4.
“Memorial service slated Friday for the late Doris I. Grimshaw,” The Post, 16 May 1968, page 5.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 November 2024
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